How about snowmobilers?

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So I share a love of hunting with a few fellow pen turners......how about fans of The POW who like nothing more than gettin steep and deep!?!



Thats a 4 lane Hwy at the bottom of that hill folks!
 

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Looks a lot different than the sights when I had one and used to ride through the Indiana cornfields every few years (which is about how often we get enough snow to use one). If I had sites like that to ride I might have stuck with snowmobiling. Ah well...
 
Used to ride one to work in the winter when I worked at Burkshore Marine up there at Big Lake. Ran the Talkeetna to Anchorage race once but never ventured up into the high country.
 
The Canadian power tobogan championships were held in Beausejour, Manitoba every year and the track was 4 miles from the house I grew up in. As soon as my neighbor and I were old enough to get ourselves there we never missed a race. First machine was a 1974 Polaris TX 250, Second was a 1974 Skirule RTX447 go like a 2 teenagers could pick it off the ground and put it in the back of a truck. It had an 18" wide track and a 22" ski stance. Went like a scared cat but was a little like downhill skiing with 1 ski. Did most of my riding on a Polaris trail boss heavy but what a nice machine. No easy place to ride here in washington but I do miss it. There were a few people that built over the snow machines but Mike Bosak from my home town is credited as the inventor of the snowmobile.
 
Got my BIL's snowmobile stuck a time or two back in Fairbanks.
Never got into the snowmobiles much, but I sure do miss those mountains.

Got a buddy who lives over there near you....
 
Born and raised in Florida and retired in Alabama but I can't waiite till January each year to head up to my sons house in Maine to ride snow machines up at Lake Chesuncook (SP?). Just wish we had the snow here so I could buy one. I've had the machine up to 98 mph but just can't push that gas any more to break 100.
 
Ahhh the good ole days. When my friends and I where in or mid teens and early 20 we all had sleds. We lived in Illinois so we didnt have the kind of snow you are showing in your picture but we still had a ball. Every once in awhile we would get some good snow and it was a ball. One of my friends had a small shack/cottage in Wisconsin with lots of logging trails to ride. Those were the good ole day. Now I live in central Louisiana.:rolleyes:
 
Dick
The Iron dog runs out of big lake to Nome now. We do a fair amount of ridding out west of Talketna near Petersvile, I am especially fond of the Dutch Hills area.

Underdog
Ironic I have a good friend near you too.

Gary
My Friend in Georgia grew up in Alabama and fell in love with an Eskimo girl while on vacation here. They are in Georgia right now but on there way back home to Nuiqsut, Nuiqsut is a tiny native village on the arctic ocean. He's the same way with sleds, not a whole lot of experiance and not the best rider but he loves to set the snow on fire!
 

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This isnt at all far from the sheep mountian area Ben mentioned in the hunters post. Beautiful country out that way!
 

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My son Gunther taking over running the sled the first time on big lake, thats the Iron dog trail ahead of us. Had the cord for the kill switch in my hand the whole ride........took about 10 minutes before I had to jam my thumb under the trotle to keep him from going to fast!
 

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Wow Rick I can't imagine all the trails that you have access to. Maine has a wonderful ITS system but when you get so far north you better have some gas cans or you will "try" to walk out. Having done the trip now for 3 years I that mu h closer to buying my own machine, just wish I could put wheels on it and ride down here. When it snowed 8 inches here this last winter I could have had a few days of fun in the pasture but it soon melted and I came back down to earth. I just love the north cold but those 8 below nights going out to the outhouse again brings me back to the deep south. One day Rick I will make it to your land and hope to see you then. Say hello to the family and you be safe out there!!
Gary
 
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